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NEW RELEASES
Graham Wilkinson, “Cuts So Deep.” The indie singer-songwriter’s first release since 2016’s “Because of You” features 11 songs he wrote across several years and recorded with engineer Patrick Herzfeld at Austin-area studio Signal Hill Recording. Herzfeld also contributed drums, keys, guitar, bass and backing vocals, with other participants in the sessions including guitarist Matt Gracy, bassist Morgan Patrick Thompson and the Shinyribs Tijuana Trainwreck horn section of Tiger Anaya (trumpet) and Mark Wilson (sax, flute).
“Cuts So Deep” highlights Wilkinson’s songwriting talents with mostly folk-rock-based arrangements centered around his conversational vocal style. It’s not clear whether the title track was written before or during the pandemic, but its chorus — “I miss seeing your smile/ Miss seeing your face” — certainly resonates in the midst of it. The album closes with a poignant piano-and-strings tune, “Balcony,” written largely for Wilkinson’s father, recently diagnosed with dementia.